User:NuclearWarfare/Speedy

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Why did you delete my article?

Articles are always being created and deleted on Wikipedia, sometimes more than one each second. This is one of the cool things about working on a living encyclopedia and shows how helpful working together on a wiki can be. Anyone can edit Wikipedia if they follow its policies and there are established standards for inclusion which have grown out of our

There are more or less four reasons why a new article might get tagged and deleted: It's

Non-encyclopedic pages

The root standard for inclusion in Wikipedia is

What if the topic has been written about somewhere else? The new article you've put up must say so, with an assertion of importance or significance, hopefully in the opening paragraph, to let readers know why there's an article about it. More than half of all speedy deletions happen because this assertion of importance is missing and by far, this is most often because the creating editor has been very truthful but the topic isn't notable.

Speaking of which, any assertion of importance must be at least

Who's Naomi?

Now, let's talk about someone named Naomi. She's notable, has been written about a lot and many folks say she's talented! However, writing an article that only says "Naomi is a wonderful actor and she's been in the movies" doesn't give other editors much to build on. There are maybe 200,000 professional actors in the world but in the last hundred years only a few thousand have been notable, by far most aren't and never will be. What's more, these days, most professional but non-notable actors have appeared on TV or in movies, for small parts, walk-ons, as extras, in reality shows and so on. So who's Naomi? What's so wonderful about her and who says so? How do we find out more?

Rather, if an article starts out with...

Naomi Ellen Watts (born

...this is much more likely to give a reader something helpful!

Ok, but who's Emi?

This brings us to

Shreds

Stuff that can't become an article, such as random text or little meaningful content gets cleaned up here too. Hint: Try using the {{

Past deletion discussions

Although a new article may get by speedy deletion, if its notability still isn't clear, any editor may then nominate it for a

If a topic is deleted following one of these discussions and an article about it is later re-created, this new article can be tagged for speedy deletion by any editor and then deleted by an administrator, without going through the discussion process again. Notability can change with time, though, or you may later find helpful sources on a topic. If a new article on any previously deleted topic makes an assertion of importance and backs this up with new, verifiable sources, it may be kept. Keep in mind, you can't merely say new sources have shown up or make new assertions, you'll have to cite them and then you may need to sway other editors that things have somehow changed.

Please be aware, if you carry on with trying to recreate an article which has been deleted through a discussion, hoping it'll somehow slip through, it will very likely be

Copyright violations

All the notability in the world won't save a copyright violation. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, so we must use free content (with a

Advertisements or spam

Wikipedia is neither an advertising service nor a directory and the community is not open to being seen this way. If you wrote an article that reads like

So now what?

If you can write up a new article which sticks within these bounds, go for it! However, reposting the same unhelpful content over and over again is most often not a